table 1. Key Euromir 95 events and PR activities

Table 1. Key Euromir 95 events and PR activities




Event                             Date          Remarks

Progress TK-228     Launch      20 Jul 1995     Upload of ESA equipment (348 kg)
                    Docking     23 Jul 1995

Nomination of crew              11 Aug 1995     Prime: Gidzenko, Avdeev, Reiter
                                                Back-up: Manakov, Vinogradov, Fuglesang

Soyuz TM-22         Launch      03 Sep 1995     Start of Euromir 95 flight (with prime crew on board)
                    Docking     05 Sep 1995     Upload: 10 kg
                                                PR event at SCOPE during docking

PR event (public event)         07 Sep 1995     Chancellery Garden, Bonn (Minister Rüttgers)

Soyuz TM-21                     09 Sep 1995     Return of previous Mir crew (Solovyev, Budarin)
(Dedocking & Landing)                           Download: 1.5 kg

PR event (public/media event)   16 Sep 1995     TV interviews - recorded
                                                Live link to medical congress at Nuremberg

PR event (public event)         07 Oct 1995     Disneyland Paris (live TV coverage)

Progress TK-229     Launch      08 Oct 1995     Upload of ESA equipment (104 kg)
                    Docking     10 Oct 1995


PR event (public event)         18 Oct 1995     Recorded video session at SCOPE
                                                (Bavarian Prime Minister Stoiber, Minister Waigel)

PR event (public/media event)   19 Oct 1995     Ministerial Conference Toulouse

First EVA                       20 Oct 1995     Duration: 5 hours 11 minutes

STS-74              Docking     15 Nov 1995     Preview of International Space Station
                                                (Russian, German, Canadian and American crew onboard Mir-Shuttle complex)

PR event (public/media event)   17 Nov 1995     United Nations VIP call (Secretary General) and multi-Agency media event
                                                (jointly by NASA, CSA, RKA, ESA)

STS-74              Dedocking   18 Nov 1995     ESA download (ca. 23 kg)

PR event (media event)          30 Nov 1995     'Art in Space' at Redu, Belgium
                                                ASI event in Turin, Italy

PR event (media event)          02 Dec 1995     TV interviews (recorded), live  interview on German national TV (ZDF 'Sportschau')

PR event (public event)         18 Dec 1995     VIP call (Minister Rühe)

Progress TK-230      Launch     18 Dec 1995     Upload of ESA equipment incl. additional supplies for mission extension (63 kg)
                     Docking    20 Dec 1995

PR event (media event)          23 Dec 1995     TV interviews - recorded


PR event (media event)          25 Jan 1996     Multi-point TV interviews - recorded (HQ, SROC, SCOPE)

PR event (public/media event)   05 Feb 1996     'Classroom in Space' (ESTEC), TV interviews - recorded

Second EVA                      08 Feb 1996     Duration: 3 hours 9 minutes

PR event (media event)          09 Feb 1996     TV interviews - recorded

Public event                    16 Feb 1996     VIP call (Ms. Yzer, Ministry of Research)

Onboard event                   20 Feb 1996     'Mir station 10 years in orbit'

Soyuz TM-23          Launch     21 Feb 1996     Arrival of new Mir crew
                     Docking    23 Feb 1996     (Onufrienko, Usachev)

PR event (public events)        26 Feb 1996     'Farewell' (SCOPE)
                                                'Hotline' (Deutsches Museum Bonn)

Soyuz TM-22                     29 Feb 1996     Return of crew (Gidzenko, Avdeev, Reiter)
(Dedocking & Landing)                           Download: 8 kg
                                                End of Euromir 95 flight

STS-76               Launch     22 Mar 1996     Arrival of additional crew member (Lucid)
                     Landing    31 Mar 1996     ESA download (34 kg)

STS-79               Launch     16 Sep 1996     ESA download (24 kg)
                     Landing    26 Sep 1996